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“This is where I go on alone”
― Clive Staples Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.”
― CS Lewis

“He could never empty, or silence, his own mind to make room for an alien thought.”
― Lewis C. S. (Clive Staples), Surprised by Joy: The shape of my early life

“Do not by any means destroy yourself. For if you live, you may yet have good fortune but all the dead are dead alike.”
― C. S. (Clive Staples) Lewis

“My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan’s country, or shot over the edge of the world into some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton

“Just as a household falls apart without emotional labor, so does politics grind to a halt if no one is actually listening to one another or reading the briefings or making plans that have a chance of working.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

“We love the things we love for what they are.”
― Robert Frost

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken, simply because they are born girls.

It is a violation of human rights when women and girls are sold into the slavery of prostitution.

It is a violation of human rights when women are doused with gasoline, set on fire and burned to death because their marriage dowries are deemed too small.

It is a violation of human rights when individual women are raped in their own communities and when thousands of women are subjected to rape as a tactic or prize of war.

It is a violation of human rights when a leading cause of death worldwide among women ages 14 to 44 is the violence they are subjected to in their own homes.

It is a violation of human rights when young girls are brutalized by the painful and degrading practice of genital mutilation.

It is a violation of human rights when women are denied the right to plan their own families, and that includes being forced to have abortions or being sterilized against their will.

If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, it is that human rights are women's rights - and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely - and the right to be heard.

[From 'Women's Rights Are Human Rights' Speech Beijing, China: 5 September 1995]”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton

“For a heartbeat, it feels like nothing will survive this moment unless he allows it. Including me. He growls a single word. “Run.”
― Jenna Wolfhart, What Darkness Brings

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
― Jean Racine

“A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.”
― Jean Racine

“I have loved him too much not to hate”
― Jean Racine, Andromaque

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Nothing you can take from me was ever worth keeping”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“I was going to ask you out.” Thomas sounded wretched. “I was just working up the nerve and she somehow knew. I guess she saw how I looked at you, even though you—you didn’t notice. She didn’t want us to change, us three. It had to be us three, she said, but I never would have cut her out. I just wanted to kiss you. I still”—his voice had gone so high and hoarse it kept cracking—“I still just want to kiss you all the time. We started arguing before we even got to the forest because she said ‘I forbid it’ and I-I flipped out and said you didn’t belong to her.”
― C. G. Drews

“What do you think? Is my hand-waving filled with enough angst? I've been practicing all morning.”
― Gene Luen Yang, Avatar: The Last Airbender - Smoke and Shadow